SEATTLE -- We're foolish. We live our lives on the internet and we take it for granted. We don't realize that the internet is fragile as a Chihuly glass sculpture. As 2014 OpenSSL Heartbleed security ...
On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post ...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an internet-based protocol that synchronizes the clocks of all devices to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) through the use of a public-facing time server. By using a ...
Making sure that every computer in your office displays the correct time and date is essential to keeping your employees in sync and preventing miscommunication in the workplace. Synchronizing the ...
Apple has pushed out its first ever automatic security update to Mac OS X users, fixing a vulnerability in NTP that would've allowed hackers to turn Macs into DDoS zombies. In some ways, this finally ...
Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encrypted communications, or tamper with Bitcoin transactions, computer ...
David L. Mills, a computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, passed away on January 17, 2024 at the age of 85. Mr. Mills is known for developing the protocol `` NTP ...
Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...
Google has built support for the leap second into the time servers that regulate all Google services. “Even better, our Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers are now publicly available to anyone who ...